European history

This groundbreaking work explores Soren Kierkegaard as a pioneering figure in Performance Theory, revealing how his philosophical approach anticipated contemporary Performance Studies concepts.

In this book, originally published in 1977, John Lukacs argues that the years 1939-41 were the decisive phase of the Second World War and The Last European War describes the history of an entire continent during these two years, one of the most crucial periods in Western civilization.

First published in 1988, A Chronology of Post War British Politics provides the first convenient chronological reference source for the modern British political scene.

In this book, originally published in 1977, John Lukacs argues that the years 1939-41 were the decisive phase of the Second World War and The Last European War describes the history of an entire continent during these two years, one of the most crucial periods in Western civilization.

First published in 1988, A Chronology of Post War British Politics provides the first convenient chronological reference source for the modern British political scene.

First Published in 1984, European Society presents a wide-ranging survey of European Society in the two centuries preceding the Industrial Revolution.

First published in 1933, This Russian Business analyses Soviet Russia.

Originally published in 1964, this is a scholarly study of the transfer of the German minority from Czechoslovakia after World War II.

First published in 1967, Europe in Conflict offers a comprehensive exploration of Europe's turbulent history during a period marked by profound political, social, and military upheaval.

Ireland was the location of the earliest comprehensive public provision for the care and control of the mentally ill.

First Published in 1984, European Society presents a wide-ranging survey of European Society in the two centuries preceding the Industrial Revolution.

First published in 1972, England, France and Christendom, 1377-99 is the study of the most fiercely fought portion of the Hundred Years' War and describes the nature of the wars that took place during the reigns of Charles VI of France and Richard II of England.

The European Union (EU) faces immediate and long-term challenges as it responds to the changing nature of the 21st-century global order.

Ireland was the location of the earliest comprehensive public provision for the care and control of the mentally ill.

First published in 1933, This Russian Business analyses Soviet Russia.

Over the last two decades German political history has changed fundamentally.

What do you need to know about the Netherlands?

What do you need to know about the Netherlands?

This book offers a uniquely comprehensive and authoritative account of the natural philosophy and of the conception of the laws of nature by Francis Bacon, one of the leading English reformers of natural science and an inspirer of the Scientific Revolution.

This volume aims to uncover the diverse approach to plants in the Renaissance and seventeenth century that paved the way for a definition of botany as a fully-fledged discipline.

The Unfinished History of European Integration is a companion to the history of the European Union.

The Unfinished History of European Integration is a companion to the history of the European Union.

This volume explores the practices of shopping in Europe during the long eighteenth century, a period during which consumption choices expanded to encompass much larger groups than before.

This volume aims to uncover the diverse approach to plants in the Renaissance and seventeenth century that paved the way for a definition of botany as a fully-fledged discipline.

Combining early modern historiography with critical race and performance studies, Masquing Blackness offers a historically contextualized examination of the mechanics of blackness in Shakespeare's The Tempest.

This volume examines the enduring entanglement of erotic desire with political, cultural, and historical change.

Focusing on one broadly representative figure, Francis Bedford, this study emphasizes how photographs operated to form and transmit cultural ideas and values.

This volume examines the enduring entanglement of erotic desire with political, cultural, and historical change.

This study examines the visual productions of the German Peasants' War - pamphlets, banners, and clothing - to argue for the disruptive and radical visual legacy in which hierarchies and modes of subjection were overturned.

This study examines the visual productions of the German Peasants' War - pamphlets, banners, and clothing - to argue for the disruptive and radical visual legacy in which hierarchies and modes of subjection were overturned.

Focusing on one broadly representative figure, Francis Bedford, this study emphasizes how photographs operated to form and transmit cultural ideas and values.

First published in 1967, Europe in Conflict offers a comprehensive exploration of Europe's turbulent history during a period marked by profound political, social, and military upheaval.

Originally published in 1980, this book written by nurses, historians and sociologists, challenges conventional forms of nursing history.

Originally published in 1980, this book written by nurses, historians and sociologists, challenges conventional forms of nursing history.

First published in 1972, England, France and Christendom, 1377-99 is the study of the most fiercely fought portion of the Hundred Years' War and describes the nature of the wars that took place during the reigns of Charles VI of France and Richard II of England.

The European Union (EU) faces immediate and long-term challenges as it responds to the changing nature of the 21st-century global order.

Drawing on extensive archival research at the UK National Archives, this volume examines how "e;London"e; (primarily British diplomats in Spain and officials at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) perceived the radical Basque nationalist group ETA's campaign of violence from 1968 to 1993.

Originally published in 1945, the purpose of Housing and the State, 1919-1944 was not to lay down what the scope of housing policy should be after the war in Great Britain, or what particular building programme should be adopted.

This edited volume is centered on the production, discussion, and consumption of contemporary art in the post-Yugoslav space now.

Originally published in 1986, for the second edition of this standard text (previously only covering up to 1970) in A Social History of Housing 1815-1985, John Burnett has extended his study to take account of the next fifteen years.

Originally published in 1945, the purpose of Housing and the State, 1919-1944 was not to lay down what the scope of housing policy should be after the war in Great Britain, or what particular building programme should be adopted.

Drawing on Jeffrey Schnapp's conceptual framework, this book examines political exhibitions organised by the Portuguese Estado Novo between 1934 and 1940 as spaces where regimes manipulated national history to legitimise their authority, crafting myths of origin and narratives of national pride.

First published in 1935, the original blurb reads: "e;Believing the gravest of all our National problems is that of Unemployment the author has set himself the task of trying to find a solution which is capable of giving continuity of employment without interfering with or increasing the competition with existing industries.

This book examines how the Iberian empires of the early-modern period were structured around population control, segregation, and racial policies rather than nation-state characteristics.

The New International Economic Order (NIEO) was an attempt, underpinned by the agency of the Global South, to articulate global economic and social rights consequent upon political rights gained through processes of decolonisation.

This book examines the nature of military ethics education after the Holocaust, using a range of national case studies.

The New International Economic Order (NIEO) was an attempt, underpinned by the agency of the Global South, to articulate global economic and social rights consequent upon political rights gained through processes of decolonisation.

First published in 1935, the original blurb reads: "e;Believing the gravest of all our National problems is that of Unemployment the author has set himself the task of trying to find a solution which is capable of giving continuity of employment without interfering with or increasing the competition with existing industries.

Through the lens of the Balkan nations, this volume makes a valuable and significant contribution to the fields of European and Southeast European studies by reconsidering the East/West dichotomy - both in terms of the Orient-Occident divide and the Eastern-Western Europe binary.

Focusing on how the history of past conflicts is mediated in the present and recent past in six European countries, this book explores media processes as they intersect with power dynamics and hegemonic narratives of history and historical memory.